1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

In 2014, a series of reforms, called as the Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP), was launched in the health system of Iran in a stepwise process. HSEP was mainly based on the fifth 5-year health development national strategies (2011-2016). It included different interventions to: increase population coverage of basic health insurance, increase quality of care in the Ministry of Health and Medica...

The purpose of this study is to investigate healthcare access disparity that will cause delayed and unmet healthcare needs for the elderly, and to examine health inequality and healthcare cost burden for the elderly. To produce clear policy applications, this study adapts a modified PRECEDE-PROCEED model for framing theoretical and experimental approaches. Data were collected from a large colle...

OBJECTIVE To analyse implementation of the pilot study of the per capita system of healthcare financing in Ghana in 2012 for a determination of the likelihood of realising the inherent theoretical benefits when the system is rolled out nationally. DESIGN AND SETTING First, publicly available information on how the pilot unfolded is presented, followed by the reaction of the health authorities...

for more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. jalal mohammed, nicola north, and toni ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This paper focuses on the inadequate attention on women's non-maternal healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. The study assessed the purchase of and financial access to non-maternal healthcare. It also scoped for mainstreaming household financial resources in this regard to suggest for alternatives. METHODS A household survey through multi-stage stratified s...

The authors argue that the American healthcare system has developed in a fashion that permits and may support ongoing, widespread inequities based on poverty, race, gender, and ethnicity. Institutional structures also contribute to this problem. Analysis is based on (1) discussions of a group of experts convened by the Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services at a c...

Not only do rising health insurance premiums make us cringe—so do the mistakes of overworked doctors who are trying to make ends meet in the face of a broken healthcare financing system. The unfairness in healthcare financing—that is, the stranglehold that a few powerful insurance companies often wield over doctors’ reimbursements—has prompted some creative solutions, including two recent bills...